MRP: Acrise

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Acrise

An engraving of Acrise Place as it was in 1793 was published in the Kentish Register and Monthly Miscellany, August 1793. The accompanying article in the Register stated that the house had recently been much altered at great expense, but that the front of the house reproduced in the engraving was the old one, rather than the new facade. The article claimed that the building dated back to the period of Henry VII and had been built by the Cossenton family. It had been acquired by Thomas Papillon (Sir George Oxenden's commercial contact and friend) in 1666 from the Lewknor family. The article noted that "the principal front of the house is opposite to that which is given in this view; and the grounds, which are bold and well-wooded, have been lately entirely modernized, and extended."

ENGRAVING Acrise Kent Papillon Kentish Register 1793 BetwP68P69.png


Sources

'A short account of Acrise-Place' in the Kentish Register and Monthla Miscellany (August 1793), p. 69


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